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Gabriola’s corduroy walkway, improved

Back in January, I blogged about Gabriola’s corduroy walkway. If you walked it then and found it tippy, you might be pleased to see that the wood is much more stable now that rock has been added.

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Trail on your Gabriola property?

Say you have property on Gabriola, and a neighbourhood trail runs through it. What to do? Perhaps you’d like to let people wander along that trail. Maybe your trail provides access to the beach or forest for neighbours who would have to take huge detours to get to those places if not for your handy [...]

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Gabriola’s corduroy walkway

When Gabriola Land and Trails Trust volunteers have work parties, they don’t mess around. Here’s what they did yesterday afternoon: transformed a wickedly muddy section of trail into this. It’s a corduroy road – or, well, a corduroy walkway, anyway.

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Thanks, GALTT!

Every week or so during the non-monsoon seasons, GALTT (Gabriola Land and Trails Trust) volunteers are out building trails, maintaining trails, or fighting Gabriola’s invasive broom by ripping out the broom plants. Have you seen the area they’ve cleared at Drumbeg Park? It looks to be about half of the large field across from Breakwater [...]

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